The word "predetermine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to suggest that something has already been decided or predetermined before the present time. For example, "The outcome of the election was predetermined by the media coverage of the candidates."
With the ability to assess risks at the individual level and predetermine winners and losers, each individual will, in essence, enter into a savings program that covers lifetime disaster costs with an individualized monthly premium.
Moreover, throughout the process Israel continued to expand its settlements, so flouting America's written promise that no party would "take unilateral actions to predetermine issues" (a Letter of Assurance on the terms of the 1991 Madrid peace conference).The second option would be to go straight for a permanent solution.
Four months of preliminary talks had failed to produce what Mr Abbas and Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, had hoped to brandish at this week's peace summit in Annapolis: an agreement to predetermine some aspects of the final-status deal that would ultimately create a Palestinian state next to Israel.
Once Mr Abbas had dropped his demand to predetermine core issues, Mr Olmert perhaps sensing the Palestinian leader's weakness began salami tactics on the new arrangement.
General Electric GEE) has thrived because it has been well run.But even if the ever more competitive environment does not predetermine the firm's future structure, it will, surely, make some characteristics more valuable.
Pretty soon it will be possible to predetermine the sex of your children.
If it tries to flower immediately and is only a year or two old, get a new plant: yours is either genetically predetermined not to perennialise, or was selected from seed that flowered early (an important detail in home saving: never collect seed from the first to flower, as you are selecting for early bolting).
The strip that is scanned is predetermined; the top left-hand corner of a credit card, for instance.
Previously, an acting president was ineligible to stand for election and the minimum age for any candidate was 50.The predetermined electionAlongside Mr Berdymukhammedov, six other candidates have been approved for the presidential contest, including one minister and senior figures in the country's regional and city administrations.
Besides blocking the playing of illegal copies of newly released songs, these devices are supposed to understand predetermined digital-usage rights.
The most difficult, because as the plot is essentially predetermined, the writer needs skill to keep the momentum going, conjuring up original, complex characters and vivid scene-setting.In a dazzling debut novel, Matt Rees, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time magazine, succeeds on both counts.
